When an extended preview of the film rolled out in Imax theaters late last year, complaints broke out about Hardy's mask-muffled dialogue and the audience's inability to understand what he was saying. But after some apparent sound-editing tweaks, Bane's voice is something to behold: crystal-clear; booming; theatrical; worthy of a comic-book adversary.

"(Bane's) particular accent was very specific, which was a gypsy accent," he says. "So that's why it was difficult to understand. But once you tune into it, you get it. I hope."